Full Description
Accountability and Culture of School Teachers and Principals studies the degree to which teachers and principals in eight countries view themselves as taking responsibility, working by clear standards, reporting transparently, and accepting feedback at work.
The book focuses on cultural values that explain variation in accountability levels of school educators, drawing on data from Canada, China, Hungary, Israel, the Netherlands, Spain, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. It addresses the question of whether cultural values, specifically collectivism and individualism, are related to teachers' and principals' external and internal accountability dispositions. It also explores the intriguing role of organizational support and key school personnel in school reforms across the world, providing a new way to understand school accountability.
The book will be of great interest for academics, post-graduate students, and scholars in the field of education policy and international and comparative studies in education.
Contents
Dedication
List of tables, figures and appendices
Contributing chapter authors
Contributing researchers
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Teachers' and principals' accountability: theoretical background
Conceptualizing accountability
Accountability and cultural values
Accountability and organizational support
Chapter 3 Study methods
Introduction
Data collection
Study measures
Analytical approach
Chapter 4 Study findings
Introduction
Accountability distribution
Cultural values distribution
Organizational support distribution
Prediction of teachers' and principals' external and internal accountability
Prediction of accountability: summary
Chapter 5 Discussion of study findings
Introduction
The two dimensions of accountability: external and internal
Accountability audiences: parents and school management
Effect of principals' accountability on teachers' accountability
Predicting accountability by personal individualism and collectivism
Accountability at a country level
Organizational support as a predictor of accountability disposition
Chapter 6 Concluding thoughts
Educators' accountability versus school accountability
Focus on internal accountability
Cultural values and accountability - theoretical and practical implications
The contingent role of the accountability audience
Team accountability: a future research direction
References
Index
